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CONTENTS. 



Scope of the Exposition 1 

The State Supports the Exposition 2 

Approval of Charleston and other Cities 2 

Special West Indian Commissioner 2 

The Exposition Grounds 2 

The Buildings 4 

Woman's Department 7 

The Architect 7 

Pinehurst Tea Gardens 8 

Avenue of States and Cities 8 

Quaint Old Charleston 

Charleston and the West Indies 9 

The South in 1880, and "Twenty Years After" 10 

Department of Exhibits and Concession! 

General Exhibits 

Official Classification of Exhibits. 

Concessions 

Classification of Concessions. . 



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LIBRARY 




The South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian 
Exposition, Charleston, S. C, Dec. 1, 1 90 1 , June 1, 1 902 




Scope of the 
Exposition. 




SHE South Carolina Inter-State and West 
Indian Exposition, which will be held in 
the City of Charleston from December 1, 
1901, to June 1, 1902, will reveal to the world the 
marvellous development of the South in the last quar- 
ter of the Nineteenth Century. From a purely 
agricultural State, South Carolina has in the brief 
period of twenty-five years, attained the position of 
leading the Southern States in cotton manufactures, 
and stands second only to Massachusetts in the 
entire Union. But South Carolina is not the only 
Southern State which has developed amazingly along 
commercial lines in the same period, and so from a 
South Carolina Exposition, it became an Inter-State 
affair, and then there seemed no good reason why 
the enormous resources of the United States as a 
whole should not have a place in the picture. Tt also 
seemed good and right to have all the great cities, as 
well as the States of the Union represented in the 
Avenue of Cities and States, and it appeared espec- 
ially proper and feasible to show the resources and 
industries of our new possessions in the West Indies, 
of the Philippines, of Mexico, and of the South and 
Central American Republics. Then it was proposed 
that many of the specially interesting foreign exhib- 
its should be removed from Paris to Charleston. 



COPYKIOHf APPLIED FOR. 

Thus the Exposition became national and even inter- 
national in character. 

The scope of the Exposition is thus very broad, and 
while it was designed primarily to tell the world the 
story of the great re volution in commercial conditions 
which has taken place in the South during the last 
quarter of the Nineteenth Century, it is also designed 
to do far more than this. One of the main features 
of the Exposition will be a Textile Building, in which 
an object lesson will be given of the wonderful devel- 
opment of cotton manufactures in the Sonth in the 
past twenty years. Liberal space will be given to 
exhibits of agricultural products peculiar to the 
South, such as tea, hemp and tobacco, also to home 
exhibits of non-agricultural products, such as phos- 
phates; to exhibits of forestry, of fish and fisheries. 
What South Carolina is accomplishing in the line of 
education will be shown to the world, the varied re- 
sources of each county in the State will be exploited 
in detail, and the exhibit of live stock will be espec- 
ially fine. The Good Roads Exhibit will prove of 
paramount importance to the people of the country, 
and above all the exhibits from Cuba, Porto Rico, the 
Philippines, Mexico and the South and Central 
American Republics will command the most general 
and vital interest. Nor will this interest be aroused 



nr.ufly fnm cumsity with regard to foreign coun- 
tries and to our new possessions, but the business 
sense of the visitors to the Exposition will lead them 
to observe with special attention all that points to a 
further expansion of American trade and to new 
markets for American manufactures. With Cuba 
and Porto Rico importing most of their rice from the 
British East Indies, and importing also all wheat, 
corn, bread stuffs, hog and dairy products, in fact, 
most of the necessai ies of life, and with all the West 
Indian Islands impoiting and needing large and con- 
stantly increasing supplies of cotton goods, there 
should be a market for everything raised and pro- 
duced in the South, and in America, at our very 
doors. 

e State ^ ne General Assembly of f-outh Carolina pas'ed a 

jports f/irresolution in January, 1900, approving the project of 

position, holding an Inter-State and International Exposition 

in Charleston, and in January, 1901, passed an Act 

appioprii.ting $50,000 forth** purpose of erecting a 

Stale Building on the Exposition grounds and making 




THE 4TATE CAPITOL AT COLUMBIA 



a complete display of the products and resources of 
the State. The resolution was adopted unanimously. 
The Bill was passed almost without objection, the 
vote in the State Senate being mote than four to one 
in favor of the Bill, and in the House exactly four 
to one. The Governor of the State has appointed a 
Special Commission of five members to direct the 
State exhibit. 

on T ^ e ^ ity Council of Churleston has appropriated 
d other f50,< 00 in aid of the Exposition, and has designated 
ties. a Special Commission to assist the Exposition Com- 
pany in its work. The Exposition has received the 



cordial approval of 
many of the largest 
cities in the country 
and the City of Bal- 
timore, Man land, 
will erect a building 
on the Exposition 
grounds for the pur- 
pose of making an 
exhibit of the re- 
sources of Maryland 
and the commercial 
andindustrial wealth 
of Baltimore. Other 
special buildings on 
the Exposition 
grounds will be 
erected by New York, 
Philadelphia, Penn- 
sylvania, Illinoisand 
the Louisiana Pur- 
chase Exposiiion 
Company, and assu- 
rances have been received from a number of other 
States of their intention to be represented at the Ex- 
position in Charleston. 




COL. JOH* H. AVERILL. 



Mr. Theodore C. Kiwuff has been for months work- pet 

Indian Com- 
ing as a Special Commissioner of the Exposition to rniss cner. 

the West Indies, Cuba and Puerto Rico. His large 
experience in Expo-ition work and his familiarity 
with the language and the commercial conditions of 
the West Indies has enabled him to enlist the co-op- 
eration of those whe are engaged in busings and 
industrial occupations. 



The site chosen by the Board of Directors for the 
Exposition is a tract of about one hundred and sixty 
acres of land on the eastern bank of the Ashley River 
about two and aha'f miles from the business centre 
of the city, and within the city limits. This tract of 
land is considered by Mr. Bradford L. Gilbert, the 
Supervising Architect of the South Carolina Inter- 
State and West Indian Exposition, as constituting 
an ideal site for the fairy-land of palaces nd towers 
and gardens whk-h is springing up there like 
maic under the touch of Twentieth Century wizards. 
The slightly rolling country lends itself readily to 
varied and artistic effects, and the magnificent live 
oaks, with their shdowy and graceful pendants of 
Spanish moss, constitute a feature which no money 
could supply. The beautiful groves and green slopes 



The Erposi- 

sition 

Grounds. 




of the Wag- 
e n e r Farm 
provide a per- 
f e c t back- 
ground for 
the architect 
and land- 
scape gar- 
dener to work 
upon, and the 
well wooded 
country 
around, and 
the sparkling 
river which 
skirts the Ex- 
p o s i t io n 
grounds upon 
the west, 
while not ac- 
tually part 
and parcel of 
the tract, fur- 
nish no mean 
setting for 
the splendid 
picture. 

The Wagener Driving Park, which is included in 
the Exposition grounds as Ihey now stand, forms an 
important part of the grounds, and will be used as a 
race course and improved for this purpose by the 
Exposition Company. On the Wagener Farm there 
stamls also an old colonial home which was the scene 
of lavish comfort and open-hearted hospitality in 
days gone by. This house is a good example of colo- 
nial architecture, and will be used as the Woman's 
Building. 

The entire tract is easy of access from the city by 
private conveyance or electric railroad system, and 
from other points by steam railway on the east side, 
and by water transportation from the west side of the 
Ashley River, the grounds having a river frontage of 
about 2,000 feet, and the river at this point affording 
anchorage for the largest vessels. 

The making of a lake some thirty acres in extent 
constitutes an important feature of the work, and the 
planting of indigenous plants and vines, which, in 
this genial clime, grow vigorously and thrive even 
during the winter months, has been accomplished. 



OAPT. F. W. WAQiNIR, 
PBHIDIHT EXPOtlTION CO. 



The principal buildings of the Exposition are eleven 
iif number. By a happy accidental shaping of the 
irregular tract constituting the site, it has been pos- 



sible to treat it after two distinct methods, by one of 
which the natural features are emphasized and pre- 
served, while the other is treated entirely from the 
standpoint of art. In the northern division of the 
site nature has accomplished results and made possi- 
ble landscape effects which it would take Centuries to 
reproduce, even at an enormous outlay. For this 
reason this half of the Exposition grounds will form 
a natural park of great beauty. Instead of the usual 
dusty, blinding, tiresome, shadeless roadway, a wind- 
ing path of 100 feet in width will be carried under 
the spreading live oaks along the edge of the lake 
with sea's in shady nooks for tired pedestrians, where 
those who are capable of appreciating the work of the 
Architect of the Universe in all its magnificent sim- 
plicity may enjoy a sense of repose. Through the 
foliage, placed here and there upon appropriate ped- 
estals, will be found interesting groups of statuary 
by the most celebrated sculptors. 

On account of its 
peculiarly "South- 
ern atmosphere" no 
comparison can be 
made, nor is desired, 
with any other Ex- 
position, and the 
South Carolina In- 
ter-State and West 
Indian Exposition 
will have the advan- 
tage of certain per- 
fecrly original feat- 
ures impossible else- 
where. 

Undoubtedly 
Charleston is one of 
the most interesting 
of the older South- 
ern cities, contain- 
ing as it does so 
many quaint, pic- 
turesque bits of 

architectural design of strictly colonial type. 
These it is proposed to emphasize and thus carry 
out the predominating feature of the Exposition in 
harmony. 

In the natural division of the grounds will be a Lake 
with a wide embankment. In this Lake will b Elec- 
trical Island, on which will stand an Electrical Foun- 
tain of unique and symbolic design. This Lake has 
been fancifully named by the Architect "Lake Juan- 
ita." and upon its eastern shore the Maryland Build- 
ing, a siructure of classic design, has been erected. 




JOHN F. FICKEN, 
GtNlRAL COUNSEL EXPOSITION CO. 



On the opposite side of this Lake the Machinery and 
Transportation Buildines have been erected. 

These buildings, which are rather long nd low in 
outline, will gain height and grace from the reflec- 
tions in the.'Lake, while at night the rows ol lights 




THE COTTON PALACE. 



of varied hues carried along the buildings, and sus- 
pended in the trees will add enchantment to the 
scene. In this part of the grounds there is a 
grand avenue dedicated to States and Cities. 

The Negro Building is, in its general architectural 
features, of the Spanish Renaissance 
order, of a strongly Mexican mission 
type. The building will be some- 
thing like the letter H in general 
outline. It will have two wings en- 
closing an inner court, and will con- 
tain twelve thousand square feet 
of space. The exhibit made in this 
building is designed to show the de- 
velopment of the negro race in the 
last twenty-five years. No man of 
his race is better able to handle this 
project than Booker T. Washing- 
ton, the head of the Negro Depart- 
ment. 

The Art Building, Fisheries Build 
ing and the Grand Stand from which 
the sports and contests on the race 
track can be viewed, also occupy 
this part of the grounds. 

The present homestead, with all its delightful color 
and outlines, will be retained for the Woman's 
Building of the South Carolina Inter-State und West 



Indian Exposition. The Architect has designed a 
very handsome annex to this building in harmony 
with its true colonial lin^s. 

On the Ashley Ri'-er side of this property a sea wall 
has been built for the purpose of utility as forming 
an axis upon which the State and 
Art Buildings'will parallel. 

A pier has been carried out far 
enough into the river to admit of the 
landing~of vessels'and boats. 

Indirect contrast, the southernlside 
of the grounds, comprising the level 
land of thelold Washington Race 
Course, is treated according to. the 
rules of the highest type of art. 
Grouped around the." four sides of a 
beautiful plaza are the principal Ex- 
position buildings. While each is 
designed with an individual treat- 
ment, they form together a harmoni- 
ous whole, the entire effect leading 
up by natural gradations to the Tex- 
tile BuUdingor Cotton Palace, which 
covers over 50,000 square feet of 
ground, and will prove the most im- 
posing and impressive of the structures. This 
building rises to a height 1 of 160 feet and shows a 
facade of over 360 ft- et, broken by various'pediments, 
projections, dome-, red-tiled roofs and turrets, in] a 
typically Southern style of architecture. The_motif 




TMI PALACE Of A*T. 



is Spanish-American with huge masses, simple and 
strong contour and outlines, with enrichments of 
terraces and sculpture at various entrances and initial 



points. Ita entire Court or Patio (100 feet in diam- 
eter), will be filled with tropical plants and enriched 
by fountains. At the right of the plaza, the Com- 
merce, or Liberal Arts Building, will be erected. 
Opposite this will be the building devoted to Agri- 




cultural and similar exhibits, containing over 43.COO 
square feet of floor area At the northern end of the 
plaza will be the Auditorium, with a seating capacity 
of nearly 4,000, in which will be placed the grand 
organ now being specially constructed by M. P. Mol- 
ler, of Hagerstown, Maryland, for the Exposition. 
A careful study of this grand plaza or Court of Honor 
will easily demonstrate the many points of interest 
obtainable. While the buildings will be separated by 
several hundred feet, the colonnade connecting the 
three principal structures will euhance the continuity 
and give repose and dignity to the design. 

The plaza between the buildings occupies a length 
of nearly 1,200 feet and a width of over 90U feet. At 
its center, some 7liO feet in length by 45t) feet in 
width, there is a beautiful sunken garden with slop- 
ing terraces of verdant green. 

On the edge of this garden, around its sides, will 
be carried lines of stalely paluiettoes, with walks and 
sets between, forming a fringe of delightful outline 
and coloring, through which can be seen the build- 
iugs themselves rich in design and color. Carried 
entirely around thtse gardens, and opening off the 
principal avenues of approach will be a continuous 
plaza smoothly paved, over 150 feet in width, en- 
riched on either side at intervals by ever-blooming 
flowers, masses of green lawn, and here and there at 
points of interest groups of statuary set off against the 
green of the foliage. At night the beauties of the 
sunken garden and the lights and shades of the build- 
ings will be emphasized by search lights in all direc- 
tions. 



At the entrance to the Exposition grounds stands 
the Administration Building, covering about 15,000 
square feet. The first impression on entering the 
grounds at any of the entrances will be one of im- 
pressive magnificence. The building devoted to 
Minerals and Forestry, covering an 
area of 20,000 square feet, stands oppo- 
site the Administration Building. The 
impo-ing entrance of the Midway will 
open off the ?atne plaza. About 22 
acres of ground has been devoted to the 
various Midway attractions, always one 
of the most interesting and instructive 
of modern Expositions. 

Opposite this entrance will be found 
another entrance of different design, 
but equally appropriate treatment, 
leading to the Live Stock Exhibit, 
for which 15 acres of ground have been 
set aside. 

In addition to the Grand Band Stand, 
placed at the northern end of the gardens, on 
the plaza, other stands will be erected throughout 




THI MAT OMAN AT THI AUDITORIUM. 



the grounds, where those who enjoy outdoor music 
may do so to their heart's content. 

The buildings will be constructed of a strong tim- 
ber frame work with such iron M may be required for 



stiffness and additional strength, and the entire ex- 
posed surfaces will be covered with what is now gen- 
erally known as "staff." The predominating colors 




ADMINISTRATION BUILDINQ. 



will be a soft ivory with white trimming?, and in 
many cases a color enrichment in shades of red and 
orange. 



-,, The Woman's Department of the South Carolina 

Woman's Inter-State and West Indian Exposition has been 

Z?ep,rf>7ienr.organized, with Mrs. Sarah Calhoun Simonds as its 

head. A number of committees have been formed to 

have charge^of the various departments of music, fine 




OLONIAL CHURCH OF tT. JAMM, QOOtt CMIIK 1714. 



the old Colonial home which already stands on the 
Exposition grounds, and it is expected to be one of 
the most complete ever made. The women of 
Charleston have taken hold of the 
Exposition idea with charac- 
teristic spirit and ability. Already 
a considerable sum has been raised 
through their unceasing efforts, and 
the prospect now is that^the _work 
accomplished by them 4 will>e fully 
equal in extent and importance to 
the work which the men are so ably 
accomplishing. The women of the 
State have also formed themselves 
into committees and have ardently 
taken up the work of pi oviding for 
and collecting worthy exhibits from 
the various counties of the State. 
The women of Baltimore and other 
cities have also interested them- 
selves in the movement to a con-id- 
erable extent. 



arts, floriculture, etc., and the Colonial Dames of 
Charleston will have charge of the Colonial exhibit. 
This exhibit will be housed in three of the rooms of 



Mr. Bradford L. Gilbert, the Architect-in-Chief of 
the South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian 
Exposition, is a native of New York City. In 1875, 
he was graduated f iom Yale College with honors, and 
then took a special course in architecture, after which 
he entered the firm of Cady, Burgh & Company, of 
New York City. While connected with this firm Mr. 
Gilbert had a share in the building of the Metropoli- 
tan Opera House and other important architectural 
work in New York. 

Mr. Gilbert has made a specialty of heavy construc- 
tion work, such as churches and public buildings. 
He has devoted in jch time to the solution of intricate 
problems in the construction of railroad stations and 
terminals, and is now employed as the architect of 
about a dozen of the leading railroad systems of the 
country. Among the more impottant buildings that 
have been constructed from Mr. Gilbert's designs and 
under his supervision are the general offices of the 
Mexican National Railway, in the Ciiy of Mexico, 
the new depot at Concord, New Hampshire, and the 
office and terminal building of the Illinois Central 
and Big Four and the Michigan Central at Chicago. 
Mr. Gilbert has recently reconstructed the Grand 
Central Depot in New York City, and has received 
unqualified praise for the fine artistic taste and busi- 
ness ability displayed by him in this work. 

Mr. Gilbert is especially fitted for the position he 
holds in th South Carolina Inter-State and West In- 
dian Exposition, by rtaaon of his large experience in 



Exposition building. At the World's Fair at Chi- 
cago, he gave:evidence!of,his capacity in this particu- 
lar kind of construction, and fifteen of the more im- 
portant buildings of the great Cotton Exposition held 
at Atlanta, in 1895, were made from his designs and 
under his supervision. He is thoroughly satisfied with 




MACHINERY BUILDING. 



the artistic possibilities of the site chosen for the 
South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposi- 
tion, and has employed in his work at Charleston the 
most capable designers and architects to be found in 
the South and in the United States. 



neharst The only commercial tea grown in the Western 
a. Gardens Hemisphere is that produced at the Pinehurst Te.i 
Gardens, a short distance from Charleston. This ex- 
hibit will be absolutely unique, and will, no doubt, 
prove one of intense interest to visitors. It will be 
both scientific and commercial in character. The tea 
plant will be shown growing upon the Exposition 
grounds, and the various processes of picking, drying, 
curing and packing will be practically illustrated for 
the benefit of visitors. To the thoughtful mind this 
exhibit will be one of exceptional value as offering a 
new field to industry and capital, supplying an easy 
and healthful livelihood to idle thousands, and im- 
parting a value to immense tracts of now waste lands. 



itnuc of 

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Kes. 



Twenty-four btates and cities of the United States 
hare made provision for State Buildings or State ex- 
hibits at the Exposition. New York has appro- 
priated $16,000 for a State Building and State ex- 
hibit; Maryland $25,000 for the same purpose.: 
Philadelphia $35,00< for a Philadelphia Building and 



a splendid ubibit of the historic and art treasures 
of that city, with the Liberty Bell set in the midst 
thereof. The Slate of Illinois has appropriated 
$25,00(1 for a State Building ai Charleston; the State 
of Pennsylvania $35,000 for the like purpose; the 
State of Kansas has appropriated $M),00<> for an ex- 
hibit at Charleston and the State of 
Oregon, $'<J5,COO. The State of 
North Carolina will make an exhibit 
costing from $?5,(:0' to $100,000. 
The Slate of Missouri ha-< appropri- 
ated $10,000 for a State Building 
at Charleston, and the Louisiana Pur- 
chase Exposition Company will erect 
a building at Charleston at a cost of 
$10,000. Louisiana and Georgia 
and Alabama have provided for ex- 
hibits at Charleston, and a string of 
other States and Cities will be rep- 
resented at the South Carolina Inter- 
.state and West Indian Exposition. 
The value of these exhibits to 
home-seekers and capitalists cannot 
be over estimated. 



Charleston belongs to the best type of the old colo- Quaint Old 
nial cities of the United States. Settled in 1670 it Charleston. 
was moved to its present site in 1672 and lies on the 
narrow neck of land between the Ashley, and^the 




A CORNER IN COLONIAL LAKt. 



Cooper Rivers, very much as New York lies between 
the East and North Rivers. It contains Pome fln* 
specimens of old colonial architecture and is a city of 



sunshine and roses, being famous for its bright and 
genial winter climate and for its rose gardens. It is 
a city of safe, conservative business methods; its 
prosperity is real and substantial, but its inhabitants, 
while eminently social and hospitable in tempera- 
ment, are not given to display. Some of its institu- 
tions and customs are survivals from an old-world 
past and full of interest and charm to the lover of 
the olden time. 

On the Ashley and the Cooper are the old baronial 
estates of the wealthy rice planters and slave owners 
who once constituted the aristocratic cla's of South 
Carolina. Many of these fertile old plantations hav 
been abandoned because of new conditions, but 
many are still occupied by families that have owned 
them for two centuries, and within these homes, if 
one can gain admission there, may be seen such won- 
derful antique furniture, old portraits and mi natures 
and other relics of colonial days as would delight the 
heart of the collector. 

The harbor of Charleston is one of the most spacious 
and beautiful on the Atlantic Coast. With 30 feet 
of water on the bar, and an open port all the year 
round, and with its nearness to our new market in the 
West Indies, Charleston is destined to hold a com- 
manding position among Atlantic commercial ports 
in the Twentieth Century. 



St. Michael's Church is one of the oldest and most 
interesting churches in Charleston. It attracts the 
attention of every visitor by the 
graceful lines of its steeple and 
by the sweet chiming of its bells. 
The romantic incidents connected 
with the?e chimes add much to 
the attractions of the old church 
itself. St. Michael'* was opened 
for service in 1761. Battered by 
shot and shell during two wars, 
shattered by the terrible earth- 
quake of 1883, it still remains 
the pride of the modern Charles- 
tonian, as it has been that of 
generations passed away. 




T. MICHAIL'S CHURCH. 



The South Carolina Inter-State 
and West Indian Exposition 
will afford a splendid opportunity 
for the extension of industrial and commercial enter- 
prise in the West Indies and in Central and South 
America. These countries have a population 
of more than 50,000,000, living in lands un- 



suited to the production of bread^tuffs and meet 
and the manufacturing of cloth, but producing 
in abundance coffee, sugar, fruit, tobacco and 
other articles in general consumption in the 
country. The City of Charleston is admirably 
adapted to the development of the most intimate 




DOME OF THE AOMIM JTRATION BUILDING. 



trade relations with these countries. For example, 
the distance from Havana to Cincinnati by way of 
Charleston is 300 miles less than by way of Baltimore ; 
500 miles less than by way of New York and 500 
miles less than byway of Boston. Charleston has 
the same advantage as regards the whole of the West 
Indies and Central and South America, and, with any- 
thing like a proper development of railroad lines, 
even the Gulf ports, with all their admitted advan- 
tages, should not be able to compete successfully 
With Charleston as a port through which to transact 
an immense West Indian and South American busi- 
less. To Charleston the voyage is less perilous and 
nsurance and other charges should be much less to 
his port than to the Gulf ports. As compared with 
hese latter ports, Charleston has no equal as a desir- 
able outlet for the products of the great West. By 
Bailing vessel the run from Charleston to the British 
ports is ten days less than from New Orleans, and 
this difference alone ought to be sufficient to make 
it to the interest of the West to trade through Charles- 
ton. 

The nearness of Charleston to the new West Indian 
possessions of the United States, the safety of navi- 



gation and the fine railroad and terminal facilities 
of this port wilFmake this Exposition of special value 
and importance to Southern manufacturers and mer- 
chants for the development cf new and larger trade 
relations with the West Indies. Cuba is an immensely 
rich countrr, its soil being so exceedingly fertile that 
sugar cane has been grown in the same fields for cen- 
turies wilhout the aid of fertilizers, and although the 
industries of that country have been fearfully devas- 
tated by war, under the never nd better conditions 
of independence the re is every reason to believe that 
the development of Cuba within the rear future win 
far exceed the wildest dreams of the enthusiast. Be- 
sides the immensely rich products of the Cuban sugar 
and tobf ceo fields, the weeded weaJth of Cuba and 
its orchards and vineyards offer spl< ndid opportuni- 
ties for the investment of .American capital and de- 
velopm^ent by~American energy. Wit ha population! 
tJy~the~liTsTSfarmh census, of 1,681,687, and wilhout 
manufacturing establishments of their own, a splen- 
did field is waiting in Cuba for occupation by : the 
manufacturers of the United States, ard particularly 
by the manufacturers of cot con goods in the Southern 
part < f this country. 

There is a fine field also in Porto Rico for Ameri- 
can occupation not occupation by arms, or as the 
result of military conquest, but occupation by the 
merchants and manufacturers of the United States 
and particularly of i he merchants and manufacturers 
of the Southern States. With a population, by the 
last Spanish census, of 814,708, all of whom have to 
be clothed and fed, there is a market for United 
States manufactured goods and food materials which 
would yield a most handsome revenue to this country 
if it were diligently cultivated. 

As it is in the West Indies so it is also in the South 



American countries where there has been slight manu- 
facturing development, but where there a*e millirrs 
of people who ought to wear clothes and who have a 
great deal to exchange for them in the way of barter 
and' trade. It is one of the thief purposes of the 
Exposition at Charleston to open a way for the mer- 
chants and manufacturers and industrial workers of 
the United States to enlarge these new lines and 
markets for the sale of American products ard the 
exchange in return of what is grown in the countries 
to the South of us. It is for this reason that the 
name of the Exposition at Charleston was made "The 

South Carolina Intfr- State and West Indian Exposi- 
tion." 



Capital invested in 
manufactures 

Factory wages paid . 

Value of manufactured 
products 

Cotton crop, in bait s . . 

Capital invested in 
cotton mills 

Consumption of cotton 
in Southern States 
in bales 

Cotton spindles in 
Southern States 

Coal mine 1 in Southern 
States in tors 

Pig iron, manufac- 
tured in tons 

Phosphate rock mined 
intons 

Grain crop of South- 
ern States in bushels. 

Railroad mileage in 
Southern States 

Capital invested in 
cotton-seed oil manu- 
facture. . 



1880 1900 The South 

in 1880, 

$257,000,OCO $1.COO,000,(00 "Twenty 
| 75,000,000 $350,0(0,0(0 Years 

cAfter." 

$457,000,000 $], 500, (00,000 
5,750,000 11,274,(HO 

$ 21,900,(00 $125,000,000 



233,000 

667,000 

6,000,000 

397.0CO 

7*0,000 

431,0(0,000 

Z I 20,6(0 



l,4f 0,000 

5,000,000 

40,000,000 

2,500,000 

2*000,000 

;36,f 00,000 

60,000 



$ 3,500,000 $ 40, 000, COO 




Among 1 the altn cti\e structures en 
the ground? will lie tbe Guatemala Other 
Building, which will be erected at a cost /"_,,_/./ 
ot e veial thous-ai.d dcllais, and will { ^ ut 
conti.in as an addition a restaurant JKepresentea 
wlieie Guatemala dLhes will be served 
and (iuaUiLaJa pictiucts exhibited. 
The atu-ncunts will be Guatemalan 
m n and wcnjin in native costumes 
and the mi sic will beluinisbed duriig 
tlie Expo.- it on pined by a band of 
Guatemalan mut-icians. 

Another attractive feature of the Ex- 
position will be the Honduras Uuilding, 
which will be filled with products of 
that country. This builtiinp will be a 
very large stiuctureof handsome arch- 
itt cture and exquisite finish. 

Far ttway Alasl-a willh.-.vea special 
build i ny on the grounds in which will 
be collected a mobt comprehensive ex- 
hibit of Alaskan pi oductsand resources 
and curiosities tl.at has-evtr been made. 
The Alaska Building will be modelled 
alter tre First Presbyterian Church 
building at Juneau, in that country. 



DEPARTMENT OE EXHIBTS AND CONCESSIONS. 



Exhibits. Live exhibits, showing machinery in operation 
* and methods and process of manufacture, are 
especially des-ired. 

Power will be obtainable in all the principal 
buildings of the Exposition. 

Loan exhibits accepted by the Manager of the 
Department of Exhibits will be cared for without 
expense to the owner. 

Works of art will be admitted in the Fine Arts 
Department whether previously exhibited or not. 

Arrangements with transportation lines will be 
made to obtain the very best possible rates in 
regard to the carriage of exhibits to and from the 
Exposition. 

The Exposition buildings and grounds will be 
constituted a bonded store for articles exhibited 
from foreign countries. 

An Inter-State Jury of Awards will be formed. 

An Official Catalogue will be published. 

Space will be assigned free of charge to exhibits 
of the natural products of a State or Territory 
when such exhibits are made by a recognized rep- 
resentative thereof, or, in his absence, by a State 
or County agricultural, horticultural, foresty or 
dairy association. 

Space assigned to individual exhibits will 
charged for at the following rates : 

For ordinary floor space in buildings, $i for 
each square foot, 

For wall space, 50 cents for each square foot. 

For special positions on centre aisle, isolated 
apace or corner lot. an increase will be charged 
above the quoted rate. 

For space in grounds, 50 cents for each square 
foot. 

The minimum application for space that will 
be accepted will be for twenty square feet. Any 
fraction of a foot will be computed as a whole 
foot. Governments and large exhibitors will be 
granted liberal allowances, provided their appli- 
cations are filed at an early date. 

Upon receipt of the notication of acceptance of 
the application by the Manager of the Department 
of Exhibits, a remittance of one-fourth of the 
total amount due for the space must be made, the 
balance will be payable upon receipt of the notifi- 
cation of the allottment of space. 

The Exposition authorities reserve to them- 
selves the right to accept or reject any application 
for exhibits or concessions, and also reserve to 
themselves the right of examining or testing any 
exhibit. 

The grounds will be illuminated generally. 
Should extra lights be required, same can be ob- 
tained upon application and payment of fixed 
rates. 

NOTE. As an EXHIBITOR may not deliver, 
under hisexhibits space contract any article from 
an exhibits space during the lifetime of the Expo- 
sition, said exhibitor must, if he wishes to sell and 
dtliver articles from his exhibits space, secure a 
sales concession and become a sales concessionaire. 



BUREAU OF AGRICULTURE: 

Division I. Agricultural and Dairy Products. 
II. Agricultural Implements and Ma- 
chinery. 

III. Mve Stock. 

IV. Foods and their accessories. 
V. Horticulture. 

UREAU OP FORESTRY, FISH AND MINES: 

Division VI. Forestry and Forest Products. 
VII. Fish and Fisheries. 
VIII. Mines and Metallurgy. 

UREAU OF MACHINERY AND ELECTRICITY. 
Division IX. Machinery. 

X. Electricity and Electrical Ap- 
pliances. 

BUREAU OF TRANSPORTATION, EXHIBITS, GOOD 

ROADS AND ORDNANCE. 
DivisijnXl. Transportation Exhibits and 

Good Itoads Exhibits. 
XII. Ordnance and Munitions of 
War. 

BUREAU OF MANUFACTURES AMD GRAPHIC ARTS: 
Division XIII. Manufactures. 
XIV. Graphic Arts. 

BUREAU OF LIBERAL ARTS, ETHNOLOGY AND 

ARCHAEOLOGY: 
Division XV. Liberal Arts. 

XVI. Ethnology and Archaeology. 

BUREAU OF COLLECTIVE EXHIBITS : 

Division XVII. State Collective Exhibits. 

XVIII. County Collective Exhibits. 
XIX. City Collective Exhibits. 
XX. Cuba and Porto Rico Collec- 
tive Exhibits. 

XXI. Philippines and Hawaii. 
XXII. Foreign Exhibits. 

NOTE. Dairy Products in Division I, and Live 
Stock in Division III will be under a separate De- 
partment called the DEPARTMENT OF LIVE STOCK. 



Space on Midway will be charged for at the rate 
of $15 per foot front, and any reasonable depth of 
lot will be allowed. 

( Concessionaires will pay such space rental else- 
\there as may be agreed upon with Exposition 
Company. 

A concessionaire shall, when making application 
for space, submit a statement in detail of the pro- 
posed concession and a sketch and a description 
of the building or installations to be erected. 

No concessionaire will be allowed to sell, assign 
or sublet his contract or a concession granted 
thereunder. 

Concessionaires will equip or provide the neces- 
sary plant or appliances called for under their con- 
tract for the prompt and satisfactory carrying out 
of same. 

Concessionaires selling foreign goods must abide 



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by the regulations issued by the Secretary of tie 
Treasury of the United States, besides conform- 
ing to the rules and regulations issued by th 
management. 

The installation of power, light, heat, water or 
compressed air plants belonging to concessionaires 
shall be erected by and at the expense of conces- 
sionaires in a manner satisfactory to the manage- 
ment, and according to plans submitted for its ap- 
proval. 

Concessionaires will keep a true and full account 
of receipts from all sources in such manner as shall 
be indicated by their contract with the Exposition 
Company and shall keep their account books open 
at all times to the inspection of the management. 
Concessionaires shall pay the wages of such cash- 
iers, ticket sellers and ticket collectors as may b; 
required or appointed by the Exposition Com- 
pany, and also the rental of a'l cash boxes, cash 
registers and turnstiles required to be used by the 
management. 

All payments must be made according to terms 
of contract. A concessionaire having a contract 
with the Exposition Company by which any per- 
centage on rece ptsis payable to same, will be re- 
quired to conduct all operations in such a manner 
and to charge such prices as shall be approved by 
the management, said percentage to be paid by the 
concessionaire each day to the Exposition Com- 
pany at such time and in such manner as shall be 
decided by the management. 

Concessionaires shall give bond in such amount, 
as the Exposition Company may require, condi- 
tioned for the faithful performance of all the terms, 
agreements and stipulations to be performed by 
the concessionaire under his contract. Either one 
of the following methods of giving bond will be 
accepted. 

First A bond with two sureties, said sureties to 
be approved of by the Exposition Company. 



Second. A bond of a guarantee company ap- 
proved by the Exposition Company. 

Third. Concessionaires may purchase a suffi- 
cient number of the income bonds of the South 
Carolina Inter State and West Indian Exposition 
Company as may be agreed upon with the Expo- 
sition Company, and deposit said bonds with the 
Exposition Company as security for the fulfill- 
ment of the contract. 

A. Manufacturing Concessions. 

B. Amusement Concessions. 

C. Alimentary Concessions, 

D. Sales Concessions. 

E. Service Concessions. 

The following Departments are operated separ- 
ately from the Department ol Exhibits and Con- 



Woman's Depirtment. 
Fine Arts Department. 
Negro Department. 
Live Stock Department. 
Textile Department. 

All correspondence relating to either of these 
five Departments must be addressed respectively 
to each of the Departments. 

NOTK. Application blanks for space for Ex' 
hibits or Concessions, the Classification of Ex" 
hibits by groups and classes, and the Rules and 
Regulations governing Exhibits and those govern- 
ing concessions will be forwarded on application. 

All correspondence relating to Exhibits and 
Concessions must be addressed to E. L. TESSIHR, 
Jr.. Manager Department of Exhibits and Conces- 
sions, Charleston, S. C. 




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OFFICERS 



South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition 



P. W. WAGENER, PRESIDENT. 



W. H. WELCH, VIOE-PRBBIDBNT. 
SAMUEL H. WILSON, TREASURER. 






JOHN H. AVERILL, DiRBCTOB-GHNE 
JNO. F. FICKEN. GEN EHAL COUNSEL. 



J. C. HEMPHILL, MANAGER DIPAKTMBST OF PrTBLiomr AND PBOMOTION. 
E. H. PHINGLE, MANAGER DBPARTHMNI OF WATS AND MEANS. 
E. L. TE83IER, JR., MANAGES DBPAKTMKNT OF EXHIBITS AND CONCESSIONS, 
JOHN F. FICKEN, MANAG*R DBPARTMINT OF LAW AND LEGISLATION. 
D. A. TOMPKINS, CHARLOTTE, N, C., MANAGER OF TEXTILE DEPARTMENT. 
JAMES B. TOWNSEND, NEW YORK Crnr, DIRECTOR OF ARTS, 

DIRECTORS. 

F. W. WAGEWBR, of F. W. Waganer ft Co., Wholesale Grocers. 

W. H. WELCH, of Welch ft Bason, Wholesale Grocers, 

SAMUEL LAPHAM, Chairman Ways and Means Committee, Charleston City Council. 

J. C. HBMPHILL, Managing Editor of The News and Courier. 

J. L. DAVID, of J. L. David ft Bro., Clothieii. 

C. S. GADSDEN, President of Charleston aid Savannah and Atlantic Coast Line Railroads. 

JNO. F. FICKBN, Ex-Mayor and Attorney at Law. 

FRANCIS K. CARET, President Charleston Consolidated Railway, Baltimore, Md. 

WILIB JONES. Cashier Carolina National Bank, Columbia, 8. C. 

General Auditor P. J. BALAGUBR. 
Chief Cltrk and Acting Auditor H. B. JENNINGS. 

Archltect-in-Chief BRADFORD L. GILBEBT. Superintendent of Grounds W. J. CRAIG. 

Superintendent of Light and Power CHARLES T. MALCOLMSON. 



The Exposition Auxiliary Board. 

Chairman J. W. BARNWELL, Charleston S. C. 
Vice-Chairman GBORGB W. WILLIAMS, Jr., Charleston, 8. C. 
ABCH. B. CALVERT, Spartanburg, e>. C. 
Secretary DANIEL L. SINKLBR, Charleston, S. C. 

Woman's Department. 

President MRS. SARAH CALHOUN SIMONDS. 
Secretary MRS. W. A. PRINGLE. 
Treasurer Miss HENRIETTA MURDOCH. 

South Carolina State Commission. 

HON. M. B. MoSwEBNET, Governor, Chairman. 
CAPT. F. W. WAGBNER. JOHN B. CLBVELAND. 

Louis APPELT. THOMAS WILSON. 

Secretary AUGUST KOHN. 

Charleston City Commission. 

Hon. J. ADGER SMTTH, Mayor, Chairman. 
C. S. GADSDEN. F. Q. O'NEILL. 

Beard of South Carolina County Commissioners. 

HON. C. 8. McCALL, Bennettsville, S. C., Chairman. 
F. Q. O'HEILL, Charleston, Vioe-Chairman. 
H. M. ATBK, Florence, 8. C., Secretary. 

Maryland State Commission. 

GEN. FERDINAND C. LATROBK. GEN. JOHN GILL. 

RBTTBBN FOSTER. GEN. LI.OYD L. JACKSON. 

SAMUEL ROSENTHAL, Jr. ROBERT OBKR. 

EDWAKD L. BARTLETT. FRANKLIN P. CATOK. 

FRANCIS K. CARET. 



North Carolina State Commission. 

GEN. JULIAN 8. CABR, Durham. THAD. R. MANNING, Hende: 
W. L. HILL, Warsaw. WILLIAM DUNN, New Bern 



F. A. OLDS, Raleigh. 

OSMOND BARRINGER, Charlotte. 



8. P. RAVENBL, Jr., Highla 
W. C. HEATH, Monroe. 



E. K. PROCTOR, Jr., Lumberton. 

Georgia State Commission. 

HON. W. A. HEMPHILL, Atlanta, Chairman. 

O. B. STBVENS, Commissioner of Agriculture, Secretary. 

State Geologist YEATES. 

Louisiana State Commission. 
MAJ. J. G. L, New Orleans. DB. W. C. STTTBBS, Baton Re 

State Commissioners. 

ALABAMA W. H. KBTTIG, Birmingham. 
ARKANSAS JUDGE FRANK HILL, Little Rock. 
MICHIGAN FRED. MARQUAND BENHAM, CharleTotr. 
RHODE ISLAND GEORGE N. KINGSBUHT. 
SOUTH CAROLINA GEN. E. W. MOISE. 
TENNESSEE J. B. WHTTBHEAD, Chattanooga. 
VERMONT ARTHUR F. STONE, St. Johnsbury. 
VIRGINIA S. MURRELL, Fontella. 
WASHINGTON A. J. BLKTHKN, Seattle. 
WYOMING W. D. PICKETT, Wise, Big Horn Co. 

Special Commissioners. 

U. H. AUBRBT. H. B. SCHOCH. THBO. 0. EJTA 



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